Issues lurking behind the open door

On the surface, the principle of open learning resources sounds attractive.  It supports the notions of personal and collective development, open communal ownership etc.
However before I jump on the suspicious sociologist part of me wants to start asking the 'but why' questions that are lurking behind the door.

• Who benefits and who looses in an OLR environment?
• Is the notion of 'ownership' simply being hidden behind a new disguise?
• Will this really assist development in under developed nations?
• Is this a western social construct that needs to be examined and pulled apart from an alternative cultural construct which does not give and receive value on the same basis
• Who determines the value of the principle

So I am cautiously excited at the new ideas while still being suspicious about identifying the traps.

I appreciate and value the collective blogs which open up the critical debate to stimulate both myn and others thinking.